2.Find the creature
If you make a hibryd or a your creation(in photoshop),you must fiind a good creature.An example,I make a hibryd creature,named Death Coloss.First I fiind the perfect combination.

3.Improve your creature
You combined the parts,but you don't like the colors,like my Death Coloss,the golden armor isn't fearsome,so I will change the yellow into black.How?It's simple,first select magnetic lasso,is under the last item on the left part.

After,select the armor carefully,if you want a advance desing you can keep some golden strips.Follow the red line in the picture for use the magnetic lasso.

Now open Image menu->Adjustements->Hue and Saturation.Select Yellow from the list and set lightness and saturation to -100,but if you don't want black use hue for change the color(WARNING: Don't set saturation/lightness to -100).

And here it's the result:

Now we deselect the part who is finished.Right click on the area and press deselect.

Press smuldge tool(the image with a finger)to make golden strips.Put the cursor on a yellow path and move it draw with it as in the second image.

Now for recoloring the weapon,if is white,gray or black and have a path of color,like titan weapon for exmple,use smuldgetool to put cyan on all weapon.

After select weapon with magnetic lasso(for don't affect the cyan background at animation) and use hue and saturation,press cyan on the color list and put -100saturation and lightness.

If at creature remains some weird path of color,like at my death coloss(red at boot's skull),use hue and saturation and set saturation and lightness to -100.

How about a list of creature making tutorials which links to actual threads? At the moment there are Dmad's, BigJocker's and ElliteKill's tutorials sticked on main page and they all explain how to create grotesque recolored hybrid. Is it really something that beginning modder should see at first place?
____________The future of Heroes 3 is here!

Hi . Can i ask you a question? You see ,i am trying to redesign the Necro town for my seven years old niece ( She is afraid of them )and i will love to add some animation to the buildings . The problem is,i have no idea how to do that . ?
I will attach a picture for a better understanding.
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1952/1necro.jpg
For example:
The water wheel on the lower building is static.
Can you give any advice on how to animate this or what programs to use ?
Any help will be welcomed . Tnx in advance.
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Did you put buildings in game(what kind of necropolis is this?bloody hell,I can't live with a necropolis like this,it's my favourite town)?If you put them,I don't think you need to explain the basics,but if not or for others I will explain:

I will explain with photoshop,to have it you must pay,if no use gimp,is free.

PART THREE:BUILDINGS EFFECTS

To make a building you must make three pictures,1 red shadown of building,contur and the building image.

Let's extract a necropolis building from heroes IV,but somethink is missing from it,hmmm,let's draw some ghosts effect.

First make one copy of building:

Now,select brush tool to and put opacity to 25%:

After deal iregular lines around the buildng and copy again,lines will be small at first copy to taller than building at fourth copy.

There's the result:

Now assamble it and make def at H3deftool and it's ready to put in game.

Tnx for tips . Yes those are in game building . I know they are not necro anymore but i told you , i am doing this for a little girl
Unfortunately , with my current basic skills in Photoshop i can only do
static images.What i need to learn is how to animate parts of them.
If i found out the steps needed the rest will be easy . I will take your
advices and try to put a fire in top of the former cover of darkness to see how it's work. Tnx again .

Quote:How about a list of creature making tutorials which links to actual threads? At the moment there are Dmad's, BigJocker's and ElliteKill's tutorials sticked on main page and they all explain how to create grotesque recolored hybrid. Is it really something that beginning modder should see at first place?

For an experienced modder who already know the steps to do it ,the final pictures, may look grotesque and silly. But as a beginner this is not important. What i want to know from tutorials is the technics used to get the desired effect i am looking for. So don't be too harsh with the man
With their help i was able to create my first animation and i am grateful for that.
It may not be too good but it opened the way